Revolution
Japanese Performance Car Culture in New Zealand
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2010
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) (Verlag)
978-1-86950-883-8 (ISBN)
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) (Verlag)
978-1-86950-883-8 (ISBN)
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A new car culture was born when the first wave of Japanese performance vehicles arrived in New Zealand in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Forty years on and it's still going strong. With over 450 photos, Revolution takes a look at the people, the cars and the events that helped shape this exciting and diverse Japanese automotive lifestyle.
Once it would have been considered blasphemous to prefer anything on wheels that wasn't a Ford or a Holden. Now Japanese performance cars rule the hearts and wallets of thousands, who are seduced by their power, speed and style. Including legendary cars from the early 1970s, when Datsun SSS variants and Mazda RX-2s and RX-3s ruled the race tracks and rally stages, this book is an unprecedented look at our long-standing love affair with Japanese performance cars and those people at the forefront of the street tuning and modifying movement. Everything from the rotary revolution and the start of turbo tuning in the 1980s, to the early 1990s when the wide-scale importation of used Japanese cars saw the birth of new power-making techniques and signalled change was on the way, is covered off. In the new century their popularity has exploded, with a new wave of drag racers, including Arnie Nguyen, Ronnie Lim and Reece McGregor, leading the charge towards New Zealand's current crop of world-standard, world-beating cars.
Drifting's local roots and its rise to the world stage with drivers like Mad Mike Whiddett are also uncovered, along with other racing and tuning personalities of an earlier era, such as Bill Shiells, Dennis Marwood, Reg Cook and Tony Rutherford -they're all here.
Once it would have been considered blasphemous to prefer anything on wheels that wasn't a Ford or a Holden. Now Japanese performance cars rule the hearts and wallets of thousands, who are seduced by their power, speed and style. Including legendary cars from the early 1970s, when Datsun SSS variants and Mazda RX-2s and RX-3s ruled the race tracks and rally stages, this book is an unprecedented look at our long-standing love affair with Japanese performance cars and those people at the forefront of the street tuning and modifying movement. Everything from the rotary revolution and the start of turbo tuning in the 1980s, to the early 1990s when the wide-scale importation of used Japanese cars saw the birth of new power-making techniques and signalled change was on the way, is covered off. In the new century their popularity has exploded, with a new wave of drag racers, including Arnie Nguyen, Ronnie Lim and Reece McGregor, leading the charge towards New Zealand's current crop of world-standard, world-beating cars.
Drifting's local roots and its rise to the world stage with drivers like Mad Mike Whiddett are also uncovered, along with other racing and tuning personalities of an earlier era, such as Bill Shiells, Dennis Marwood, Reg Cook and Tony Rutherford -they're all here.
Brad Lord is an automotive journalist and photographer based in Auckland, and former editor of New Zealand Performance Car magazine. In 2005 he helped launch NZV8 for Parkside Media. Currently he divides his time between freelance projects for local and international automotive magazines.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.11.2010 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 450 photographs |
| Verlagsort | Auckland |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 280 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 460 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad |
| ISBN-10 | 1-86950-883-1 / 1869508831 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-86950-883-8 / 9781869508838 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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